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In other particulars, not capable of a statistical statement, the improvement has been equally certain and gratifying. The Schools have been intrinsically better - the teachers of riper experience and more carefully selected, [[strikethrough]] the School [[/strikethrough]] Facilities have been improved by the erection of many new buildings and the improvement of others by repairs and [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] supply of suitable furniture, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] The attendance has been more uniform and [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] classification and grading of the Schools more complete.
Good Scholarship The protracted and thourough examinations, near the close of the annual session in June, furnished [[strikethrough]] another favorable [[/strikethrough]] an opportunity for judging of the success of these children in attaining to good scholarship. The schools in Richmond, which it is not claimed are better than many others, may be used for the purpose of illustration. Not more than [[strikethrough]] forty ()  [[/strikethrough]] 40 of the 2000 pupils in attendance at the end of the year, were still in the alphabet, and these had been in the Schools but a few weeks. All the [[strikethrough]] rest [[/strikethrough]] remainder are sufficiently advanced to make it certain, that the next census will enroll them among the reading and writing population of the state. About one half of the  whole number have been trained in the Third, Fourth, or Fifth Readers, are well grounded in the elements of Arithmetic, and are familiar with the principal facts of descriptive and political Geography.  
[[strikethrough]] Somewhat [[/strikethrough]] More than this may be said of the [[strikethrough]] pupils [[/strikethrough]] 

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